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Cheshire travel tips: Folklore and fantasy in the Peak Districthttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/mar/18/cheshire-travel-tips-folklore-fantasy-weirdstone-brisingamen
Alan Garner, author of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, explains how the area around his Peak District home is steeped in myth<p>The journey itself feels like a quest. I'm driving through the rural backroads of Cheshire's Peak District, the lush landscape of ancient droving trails overshadowed by Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope, to meet an author described by Philip Pullman as "the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien".</p><p>Alan Garner published The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in 1960 but his folklore-rich prose, crafted amid and about the landscape of east Cheshire, is finding a new legion of fans today, not least with the publication of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/29/boneland-alan-garner-review" title="">Boneland</a>, the final volume of the Weirdstone trilogy last year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/mar/18/cheshire-travel-tips-folklore-fantasy-weirdstone-brisingamen">Continue reading...</a>Literary tripsPeak District holidaysWeekend breaksLearning holidaysFamily holidaysUnited Kingdom holidaysEurope holidaysTravelEngland holidaysAlan GarnerBooksMon, 18 Mar 2013 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/mar/18/cheshire-travel-tips-folklore-fantasy-weirdstone-brisingamenPhotograph: David MansellMow Cop, on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border, features in Alan Garner's Red Shift.
Photograph: David MansellPhotograph: David MansellMow Cop, on the Cheshire-Staffordshire border, features in Alan Garner's Red Shift.
Photograph: David MansellDavid Atkinson2013-03-18T08:00:00Z